The political and
cultural rift between the two countries has figured prominently in his art.
It was a silly spat, but many saw it as emblematic of a larger
cultural rift between Wired — whose iconoclastic magazine routinely gave the finger to everything «old» and Manhattan related — and its lead underwriter, the very embodiment of the New York establishment.
Not exact matches
Afghanistan has its own
cultural rifts -
between ethnic Pashtun and Tajik, for example - but it's rare to see such an explosion of religiously motivated violence.
Beyond the invaluable bond such a gesture will create, you'll be more clear on any major differences in
cultural background or values that may have caused
rifts between you two otherwise.
Since the early 1980s, his oeuvre has built new bridges across the
rift between American and European modernist and postmodernist painting, and his art has been wide open to other
cultural influences.